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Northland student portaging canoe

Outdoor Education

Backpacker Magazine ranks Northland second in a list of the nation’s best colleges for hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts. The reasons? Our proximity to trails, rivers, forests, Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands, our outdoor rec opportunities, student clubs, Outdoor Orientation, outdoor education major, and our passionate professors. In short,…

Education Major Danon Briggs

Education

…in Middle/Secondary Education in math, science, and social studies. We give you the tools to establish a trusting environment and to foster the group dynamics essential to run a successful classroom. Our education courses provide you with the tools to teach content and the skills to help shape the character…

Environmental Education Minor Information Session

March 13, 4:00 pm5:00 pm

Hoping to use your your knowledge of environmental science to teach others? Want to add a dose of ecological expertise to your education, outdoor education, or social science degree? Or maybe your humanities major has opened a passion for engaging others in the natural world? Environmental education is relevant to…

Study Abroad

Off-campus Study

…your travel course deposit. 2020 May Term Travel Courses Climbing Instructor Development (OED 414 01) $1,225 Lake Superior Circumnavigation (IDS 180 01) $1,350 Paddling Instructor Development (OED 409 01) $400 Teaching in Environmental Education (EDU 250 01) $500 Urban Outdoor Education (OED 385 01) $400 Wildlife Handling & Immobilization (NRS…

Northland College alums Derek Ogle and Tam Hofman

Alumni Association Recognizes Hofman and Ogle

…Tilden Award, the highest honor presented to an individual park interpreter. She has also served the Chequamegon Bay region as an EMT for over thirty years. Hofman graduated from Northland College with degrees in outdoor education in 1980 and in elementary education in 1984. Before joining the park service, she…

Forest Lodge Educational Campus Takes Shape

…to place through education and the arts, and foster policy dialogues that provide leadership on the environmental issues of our times. As a preeminent environmental liberal arts college, Northland is well positioned to shepherd hands-on outdoor studies, research, and workshops here. Jason Maloney, the team leader overseeing the Forest Service’s…

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Student projects save USFS $100,000, receive recognition

…award was presented to Northland College’s Outdoor Education Department and the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, for student work in developing plans for making the buildings accessible for all abilities and for implementation of the plans by the Forest Service. In 2017, Evan Coulson, assistant professor of outdoor education, replicated the project…

Northland College alum Alex Alvarez

Climate Change and the Risk for Mass Violence

Alex Alvarez '85 leads the Genocide Resource Project

…also majored in outdoor education at Northland. Do you still use any of the wilderness skills? Although I don’t lead outdoor trips anymore, I still often use the outdoor skills I first learned at Northland. For many years, I was an avid mountain climber, while nowadays, I do a lot…

Northland College teaching students talk with Washburn fifth graders

Environmental Education

…and influence those natural functions, and how we can change our behaviors in order to sustain a healthy environment for the future of all living things. Students with an environmental education minor are prepared to effectively teach participants of all ages and abilities, in outdoor as well as indoor settings….